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Tate St Ives Performance

Circuit SWITCH festival: Jess Green

23 September 2016 at 20.30–21.00

Free for Members

See a politically-charged live poetry performance

Jess Green is a political performance poet whose poems about education, including Dear Mr Gove which received viral attention in 2014, have received acclaim from the likes of Josie Long and Scroobius Pip. She has written for the BBC and Channel 4 and has performed up and down the country including at Glastonbury, Latitude and Bestival. For SWITCH she will be performing at the Barbara Hepworth Museum and Sculpture Garden. 

On Saturday watch out for Jess popping up throughout the afternoon across the festival. Catch her at the Hothouse on Porthmeor beach at 13.00.

Tate St Ives

Porthmeor Beach
St Ives
Cornwall TR26 1TG
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Date & Time

23 September 2016 at 20.30–21.00

Doors open at 19.15

Performance repeated at 20.15

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Free

Price shown includes donation. Concessions available. Under 12s go free (up to four per parent or guardian). Family tickets available (two adults and two children 12–18 years) by telephone or in the gallery.

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